Live NOW

“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.” ~Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Are you getting ready to live? Stop it and LIVE NOW! Before you know it, time runs out...Tomorrow is promised to no one, yet we act like we have all the time in the world to do the things we really want to do...and we keep putting them off.

Don't let your time run out with music still in you. Do the things you have always wanted to do. Don't let circumstances dictate that you can't do what you want to do. It is your choice to either do it or stay "getting ready to live."

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”

"Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. You need to continually snack on it throughout the day.”

Are you getting your fill of motivation? If you went to the "Get Motivated" seminar, that should have kept you motivated for the rest of last week, but as we start a new week, where do you find your motivation?

Instead of junk food, snack on MOTIVATION! Zig Ziglar says that "Motivation doesn't last and neither does bathing, but that's why I recommend it daily." I'm suggesting that you take it a step further and do it hourly, or at least 3 times a day. Could anything stop you if you were filling your head with motivation 3 times a day? I think not!!

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"Motivation is like food for the brain. You cannot get enough in one sitting. You need to continually snack on it throughout the day.”

Focus On The Present

"You can't change anything in the rear view mirror. You have to look through the front windshield." ~General Colin Powell

I had the opportunity to hear General Colin Powell speak at the "Get Motivated" seminar (along with 40k of my closest friends) as well as other great speakers. He said this during his speech and it really hit home for me. I know a lot of people who are having this challenge of not living in the present and going back to the past that's keeping them stuck. Why do you think this is?

I'd say that it's fear of the unknown (the future) vs. the pain of what they already know (the past). This is keeping many people from getting what they want, because they can't get out of the trap they are caught in. It happens to all of us and the best way to deal with it is to focus on the present, even if it is only 1 day at a time, or even the next hour instead of reliving the past.

A lot of people will say to me, "Oh yea, I left the past in the past." However, when challenges come up, they fall back into the state that kept them stuck in the past, so have they really left the past in the past? Don't think so...but you can.

Focusing on the present allows you to plan for the future. Focusing on the present allows you to eliminate the past from the discussion. Focusing on the present allows you to be ready for everything that comes to you! Focusing on the present allows you to be prepared.

Take today and focus on today! Focus on the present.
What do you think?

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"You can't change anything in the rear view mirror. You have to look through the front windshield."

Uniquely YOU

"Your most important job is to be you. There are contributions you can make, 
and gifts you have to give, that no one else can duplicate."  Ralph Marston

 You have a perspective that is unique and valuable. No on else has your unique viewpoint!
No one else has the same valuable insights that you have.
Share the insights and energy that come from that perspective.

 You have feelings and longings that flow from the core of who you are.
Express those feelings and fulfill those longings in your own special way.
The world is waiting to hear those feelings and longings.  Don't deprive the
world of that opportunity to learn.

There is great treasure in your authenticity. Your authenticity is what brings the
world to your doorstep.  There are beautiful possibilities that spring from the genuine
person you are. Don't hide them, let us all share in those possibilities.

Through you, life experiences itself in a way that is unique and special. If you don't
share it with the world, that unique and special experience dies with you, never to
be shared. Don't cheat the world from your uniqueness!

Use this opportunity to make a difference in a way that only you can do.

Know.  Be Known.  Make A Difference!

"Your most important job is to be you. There are contributions you can make, and
gifts you have to give, that no one else can duplicate."

Refuse to Agree to Mediocrity

"Mediocrity is a form of madness, a dream embraced by the masses because it makes just getting by an acceptable -- sometimes applauded -- social art form." ~Guy Finley

Have you embraced mediocrity? Really? Are you excellent in every thing? Do you always strive to be the best that you can be, or do you sometimes slack off...just a little?

We have become a society that makes getting by an art form. Working for the man, doing enough to not get fired, but not going all out to stand above the crowd. Too many people are playing small. The world is not served by your playing small...PLAY BIG!!!

Look at the things you do. What are you an expert at? What are you good at. Where have you settled on being mediocre? I'm sure there are not any places that you would say you are terrible, so let's make mediocre as the bottom rung.

How can you move out of mediocrity? Do you even want to? Or does that frighten you too much. You were meant for so much more, go for it!!!

Let's take a look at settling. One of my favorite quotes says "The place for what you want is currently occupied by what you have settled for." Is that you? Have you settled on mediocrity? I sure hope not...

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"Mediocrity is a form of madness, a dream embraced by the masses because it makes just getting by an acceptable -- sometimes applauded -- social art form."

Your Brain Is Not Your Friend

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate." ~Carl Jung

Have you made your unconscious, conscious?? You say, 'What does that mean?" We are directed more by our unconsciousness than our conscious mind, in fact, 96% of our daily thoughts and actions are from the unconscious mind! Think about that for a while.

What would happen to your life if you were able to be in your conscious mind say, 5% or maybe even 7%? How much more effective would you be? How may more things would you get done, start, plan? By increasing your conscious mind by 2%, you are DOUBLING it! WOW!

Your unconscious mind is running your life right now. How's that working for you? Here's something to try to get your head around...YOUR BRAIN IS NOT YOUR FRIEND. Let me repeat that: YOUR BRAIN IS NOT YOUR FRIEND.

Why you ask? Because your brain (unconscious) can't tell the difference between what is real and what is not. It can't tell you what is right or wrong, but it will tell you things thinking that it is protecting you, that can hurt you. And if we are living in that brain, it is not helping us. It is NOT our friend.

Let me know what YOU THINK!
Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

A Lousy Teacher

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." ~Bill Gates

Have you been successful before? Are you successful now? Have you found that you learn more from success or more from failure? Why is it that our society so deeply frowns on failure?

What is failure? How do you describe it? How do you feel about it? To me, failure is nothing more than feedback. It's telling me that what I'm doing isn't working and I need to change the strategy or the direction that I was going. Most people when they fail, either quit or "try harder." Are you "trying harder" but getting the same results?

Einstein said that "Doing the same thing over and expecting a different result was insanity." Yet how many people do you know that are doing that?

Success is a lousy teacher. Why do you think so many championship teams don't make it back to the championship game? Their success didn't teach them to be better, they didn't have the same hunger and with everybody trying to beat the champs, their success wasn't able to allow them to be prepared for the new challenges.

Most of you reading this are smart...Don't let your success make you think that you can't lose.

Know. Be Known. Make A Difference!

"Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose." ~Bill Gates